Evan Alter
Senior Software Architect at inKind
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolEvan Alter is a Senior Software Architect based in Austin with 16 years building full-stack web applications, APIs, and cloud-deployed systems. He has led engineering teams as a CTO and founder, driving product roadmaps, hiring, CI practices, and complex supply-chain and integration projects from concept to production. Hands-on across Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, SQL/MongoDB and cloud platforms like AWS and Heroku, he also contributes to open-source—improving thread-safe rounding behavior in the well-known RubyMoney library. Evan blends customer-facing integration work and vendor partnerships with deep systems experience (Linux administration, Salesforce administration, and cross-domain communication), and once operated one of Texas’s early large-scale crypto-mining deployments. He’s known for turning messy requirements into testable, maintainable systems while mentoring distributed and outsourced teams.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice at University of DelawareWest Springfield
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Github Skills (4)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
RubyMoney/money
Nov 2013 - Dec 2013
A Ruby Library for dealing with money and currency conversion.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 22 days
Contributions summary:Evan primarily focused on enhancing the core functionality of the money library, specifically addressing rounding mode behavior. Their contributions included adding the ability to temporarily change the rounding mode, making the switching of rounding modes thread-safe, and modifying how the block returns results. They also updated documentation to reflect the implemented changes. The user worked on Ruby code, including updating specs.
currency-conversioncurrency-converterrubycurrencycurrency-exchange-rates
pingboard/plurality
Jan 2014 - Aug 2015
Contributions:8 commits, 1 push in 1 year 7 months
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